CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Blank Is Beautiful: Three Decades of Erasing and Remaking the World 3
PART l : Two Doctor Shocks: Research and Development 23
1. The Torture Lab: Ewen Cameron, the CIA and the Maniacal Quest to Erase and Remake the Human Mind 25
2. The Other Doctor Shock: Milton Friedman and the Search for a Laissez-Faire Laboratory 49
PART 2 : The First Test: Birth Pangs 73
3. States of Shock: The Bloody Birth of the Counterrevolution 75
4. Cleaning the Slate: Terror Does Its Work 98
5. "Entirely Unrelated": How an Ideology Was Cleansed of Its Crimes 116
PART 3 : Surviving Democracy: Bombs Made of Laws 129
6. Saved by a War: Thatcherism and Its Useful Enemies 131
7. The New Doctor Shock: Economic Warfare Replaces Dictatorship 142
8. Crisis Works: The Packaging of Shock Therapy 155
PART 4 : Lost in Transition: While We Wept, While We Trembled, While We Danced 169
9. Slamming the Door on History: A Crisis in Poland, a Massacre in China 171
10. Democracy Born in Chains: South Africa's Constricted Freedom 194
11. Bonfire of a Young Democracy: Russia Chooses "The Pinochet Option" 218
12. The Capitalist Id: Russia and the New Era of the Boor Market 246
13. Let It Burn: The Looting of Asia and "The Fall of a Second Berlin Wall" 263
PART 5 : Shocking Times: The Rise of the Disaster Capitalism Complex 281
14. Shock Therapy in the U.S.A. : The Homeland Security Bubble 283
15. A Corporatist State: Removing the Revolving Door, Putting in an Archway 308
PART 6 : Iraq, Full Circle: Overshock 323
16. Erasing Iraq: In Search of a "Model" for the Middle East 325
17. Ideological Blowback: A Very Capitalist Disaster 341
18. Full Circle: From Blank Slate to Scorched Earth 360
PART 7 : The Movable Green Zone: Buffer Zones and Blast Walls 383
19. Blanking the Beach: "The Second Tsunami" 385
20. Disaster Apartheid: A World of Green Zones and Red Zones 406
21. Losing the Peace Incentive: Israel as Warning 423
CONCLUSION
Shock Wears Off: The Rise of People's Reconstruction 443
Notes 467
Acknowledgments 527
Index 535